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Archive for November, 2009

unabashed cleverness

Posted in musings on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just came across this promo for the Sydney International Food Festival, which depicts many countries’ flags using artfully arranged popular regional foods. Below are some favorites. With artwork like this, I can only imagine how good the actual production was! I envy SIFF’s attendants… almost as much as I envy the people who were [...]

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sucré for the holidays

Posted in New Orleans, Sucré, chocolate, dessert on November 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Just in time for the holiday season, Sucré has come out with a collection of special bonbons that uphold the shop’s tradition of meticulously crafted, enticingly whimsical chocolates. They sent me this pretty little box from their Sugar & Spice collection, and I’ll be very pleasantly surprised if I have some left by the time [...]

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i had this dream last night

Posted in musings, peas, vegetables on November 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »

that I was eating from a smooth white porcelain bowl that was positively teeming with supple, succulent peas. Ecstatically vivid, lustrous, with the sheen of just a touch of butter; shapely and undimpled, bouncing back a little against every bite; vegetal, nutty, everything that canned peas are not. Each bite was an exclamatory statement of [...]

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